rare. [f. as prec. + -IST.] A habitual cannibal.
1817. Langsdorff, Voy., 133. It is extremely probable that all our forefathers, when they were at the lowest step of civilization, were anthropophagists.
1881. Nature, 20 Oct., No. 625. 599/2. He supposes that during the Bronze period the inhabitants of this part of the Caucasus were Anthropophagists.
